The runaway success of Kubernetes has created an ecosystem of tools to simplify the complexity of application development and deployment.
The majority of these tools exist as open-source projects maintained by a community of enthusiasts. However some, due to their popularity and the importance of the role they fulfill, gain additional recognition through adoption by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
In this post I discuss Helm, selected by the CNCF as a package manager providing an easy way to manage and publish software on Kubernetes.

Developing for Kubernetes can be a daunting task for any developer not familiar with the ecosystem. The developer needs to understand how to create spec files, author CI/CD scripts with a system such as Jenkins or CircleCI, and instrument logging and tracing. Knative aims to solve some of these issues, abstracting the details of building images away from the developer.
Knative helps developers build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads on Kubernetes.

BoxBoat is proud to announce our newest committment to delivering the best available container enablement services to our clients. We strive to hire and retain only the best of the best as BoxBoat team members; joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a Silver Kubernetes Certified Service Provider recognizes this expertise. We are excited to continue our training, experience, and contribution to the Kubernetes community, as well as to our clients, with the support of the CNCF.

While our minds have already shifted ahead to Dockercon Europe, there was one announcement in particular from Dockercon2018 that everyone should take notice. Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) will soon allow organizations to federate applications across not only other deployments of itself, but accompanying Kubernetes cloud-hosted solutions like AWS Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This pivotal business decision for Docker Inc. demonstrates that they are listening to their customers and should allow them to continue to be the go-to container platform for enterprises across the globe.